Oh man, sorry about your luck. I always try to look at my bad crashes as an opportunity to get something new. I too "Love my Twins". When I crash mine I will build another one. The kids love to watch my parachute men drop.

I am looking forward to getting my QTR VTOL going. I attend a couple of RC fly-ins where we play games such as egg drop to target, carrier landing on tables, and spot landings for points. I don't think any of our group has anything like it. I would probably be disqualified but it would be entertaining. I have a bomb bay door in mine as well as a ramp door. How are you doing on your build?

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Okay, I've been lurking and slowly re-adjusting my VTOL plans inside my head. Finally found some time to get things rolling with my TTRT (tricopter tilt rotor twins). Using a cheap 50mm EDF - should be great for VTOL pitch control. The main wing will tilt 90 degrees with two motors on each side. Basic principal is this:

VTOL mode:
similar to a tricopter, but ailerons will be yaw control

Forward flight:
EDF is off, elevator surface does pitch control
Motors are used for yaw
Aileron surfaces do roll control
gyros are off / disabled

Now with all that said does anyone have code that would make this beast fly?

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you need the CG to be behind the rotors while in the hover, which means it either has to be behind the pivot point of the wing or the rotors must be on underslung nacelles. Another option would be to increase the horizontal stab size so that the CG can be moved further back. there might be some issues with the propwash from the main rotors hitting the tail through conversion, which a bigger tail will make worse. Perhaps a T tail or a large V tail might mitigate that a bit?